A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Klimt's major works alongside authoritative art historical commentary and privileged access to the artist's archive. With top quality illustration, including new photography of the celebrated Stoclet Frieze, the book follows Klimt through his prominent role in the Secessionist movement of 1897, his candid rendering of the female body, and his lustrous golden phase when gold leaf brought a shimmering tone and texture to ... |
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A beautifully realistic, relatable story about mental health and the healing powers of friendship and art, perfect for fans of Kathleen Glasgow's Girl in Pieces and Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places . It's been two months since the Night on the Bathroom Floor - when Lily found her sister, Alice, hurting herself. Now Alice is coming home after treatment and it's getting harder for Lily to outrun the compulsive thoughts she's having. Meeting Micah, a guy with a troubled past of his own, the pair embark on a poetry project that helps Lily to see that the words she's been holding back, ... |
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Part of the "Mindfulness Moments for Kids" series, this mindful meditation moment teaches kids to think like a bunny and find their own focused energy! With "Bunny Breaths", kids learn to how to replenish their energy with quick, focused breaths...no matter how blah they feel. Best of all, it can be performed anywhere: in the backseat of a car, at home, or even at a child's desk at school. "Mindfulness Moments for Kids" offer easy-to-follow exercises that kids can use to manage their bodies, breathing, and emotions. ... |
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Over 200 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and conceptual pieces trace the story of modern art's innovation and adventure. With explanatory texts for each work, and essays introducing each of the major modern movements, this is an authoritative overview of the ideas and the artworks that shook up standards, assaulted the establishment, and trailblazed new ideas. A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernism. Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. ... |
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With motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, and Gino Severini. With affiliate painters, sculptors, designers, architects, and writers, the group sought to subsume the dusty establishment into a new age of sleek, strong, purified modernity. Futurism's place in art history is as ambivalent as it is important. The movement pioneered revolutionary methods to convey movement, light, and speed, but sparks controversy in its glorification of war and fascist politics. Their frenzied, ... |
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Number 1 New York Times bestselling author. They can only hurt you if you try to teach them. ... The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. They're so bad they've been removed from the student body and isolated in room 117. Their teacher is Mr. Zachary Kermit, the most burned-out teacher in all of Greenwich. He's living for retirement, but the superintendent has his own plans to torpedo that idea - and it involves assigning him to the Unteachables... The Unteachables never thought they'd find a teacher who had a worse attitude than they did. And Mr. Kermit ... |
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Illustrated by Jérôme Brasseur. ... "A tear came to Nell's eye. She hated being alone in that big, dark place all night long, not able to sleep because she was worried about her grandfather. Every night he would go out and leave her on her own, and yet he never told her where he went or what he did. Then he would return early the next day, tired, worried and sad." From the Book In a run-down part of London, where criminals and honest people live side-by side, Nell lives with her grandfather in "The Old Curiosity Shop". They are very poor, and Nell is worried because her grandfather ... |
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Compiler: Neli Miteva . ... This book follows the process in the search for personal identity in Bulgarian fashion design through the three conceptual exhibition projects "XXSOFIA", "1.5 km of...", and "STATIONS". The garment is seen as a specific connection of the individual with its environment ("XXSOFIA"), as a visual commentary on the concept of "distance", its duration, length or transience ("1.5 km of..."), or as an interpretation of the global trend multilocalism through the study of our identity created through the experience collected by living in ... |
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Умален модел на камион с реактивна система за залпов огън (РСЗО) - Launch Rocket System BM 13-16N, с прякор "Катюша". Това бойно съоръжение е било произведено през април 1943 година. БМ-13 "Катюша" е използвана по време на Втората световна война. С галеното име Катюша, дадено от редовите войници, през този период са известни всички съветски бойни машини от подобен тип това име остава и след войната като нарицателно за реактивните системи за залпов огън. Комплектът съдържа: пластмасови елементи за сглобяване на макета инструкции за сглобяване на макета За да може да сглобите и залепите този ... |
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A three-level series of grammar reference and practice books for teenage and young adult learners. Active Grammar Level 2 covers all the grammatical points usually taught at B1-B2 (CEF) level. The book presents grammar points in meaningful context through engaging and informative texts, followed by clear explanations. Useful tips highlight common mistakes that intermediate students usually make. Carefully graded exercises provide plenty of challenging practice and encourage students to apply their own ideas creatively to grammar learning. A large number of contrastive revision exercises in the book and on the CD-ROM allow ... |
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Workbook : provides additional activities for further practice that are specifically tailored to fit with the Student's Book content; includes extension activities with extra grammar and vocabulary exercises related to the unit topic to extend learning; everyday English tasks present further opportunities to practice relevant, real life English; review sections allow students to test themselves and to see how much they can remember. The answer key allows students to check their own answers and review their progress. Учебната система по английски език "Headway - ниво Pre-intermediate" се състои от: ... |
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Workbook : Provides additional activities for further practice that are specifically tailored to fit with the Student's Book content; Includes extension activities with extra grammar and vocabulary exercises related to the unit topic to extend learning; Everyday English tasks present further opportunities to practice relevant, real life English; Review sections allow students to test themselves and to see how much they can remember; The answer key allows students to check their own answers and review their progress. Учебната система по английски език "Headway - ниво Beginner" се състои от: ... |
